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Long term impact of emotional, social and cognitive intelligence competencies and GMAT on career and life satisfaction and career success

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, December 2014
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Title
Long term impact of emotional, social and cognitive intelligence competencies and GMAT on career and life satisfaction and career success
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, December 2014
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01447
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Authors

Emily Amdurer, Richard E. Boyatzis, Argun Saatcioglu, Melvin L. Smith, Scott N. Taylor

Abstract

Career scholars have called for a broader definition of career success by inviting greater exploration of its antecedents. While success in various jobs has been predicted by intelligence and in other studies by competencies, especially in management, long term impact of having intelligence and using competencies has not been examined. Even in collegiate outcome studies, few have examined the longer term impact on graduates' careers or lives. This study assesses the impact of demonstrated emotional, social, and cognitive intelligence competencies assessed at graduation and g measured through GMAT at entry from an MBA program on career and life satisfaction, and career success assessed 5 to 19 years after graduation. Using behavioral measures of competencies (i.e., as assessed by others), we found that emotional intelligence competencies predict career satisfaction and success. Adaptability had a positive impact, but influence had the opposite effect on these career measures and life satisfaction. Life satisfaction was negatively affected by achievement orientation and positively affected by teamwork. Current salary, length of marriage, and being younger at time of graduation positively affect all three measures of life and career satisfaction and career success. GMAT (as a measure of g) predicted life satisfaction and career success to a slight but significant degree in the final model analyzed. Meanwhile, being female and number of children positively affected life satisfaction but cognitive intelligence competencies negatively affected it, and in particular demonstrated systems thinking was negative.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Dominican Republic 1 <1%
Unknown 154 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 24 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 13%
Student > Bachelor 19 12%
Researcher 15 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 8%
Other 35 22%
Unknown 32 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 42 27%
Business, Management and Accounting 36 23%
Social Sciences 14 9%
Unspecified 5 3%
Arts and Humanities 5 3%
Other 17 11%
Unknown 39 25%
Attention Score in Context

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